FILE – This June 25, 2018 report picture displays James Gunn on the premiere of “Ant-Guy and the Wasp” in Los Angeles. Months after being fired over outdated tweets, James Gunn has been rehired as director of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. three.” Representatives for the Walt Disney Co. and for Gunn on Friday showed that Gunn has been reinstated as writer-director of the franchise he has guided from the beginning. (Photograph through Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, Report) (Related Press)

NEW YORK — Months after being fired over outdated tweets, James Gunn has been rehired as director of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. three.”

Representatives for the Walt Disney Co. and for Gunn on Friday showed that Gunn has been reinstated as writer-director of the Surprise franchise he has guided from the beginning. Gunn was once fired closing July over tweets from just about a decade in the past during which Gunn joked about topics like pedophilia and rape.

Gunn previous apologized for the tweets, which he known as “unlucky efforts to be provocative.” Disney Chairman Alan Horn on the time stated Gunn’s phrases had been inconsistent with the studio’s values. The feedback, created from 2008 to 2011, had been delivered to mild through far-right propagandists Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec who combed thru Gunn’s social media historical past after Gunn’s grievance of President Donald Trump.

However Gunn’s dismal was once passionately protested through many. Fan petitions circulated on-line. The “Guardians” forged, together with Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Vin Diesel and different stars, supported Gunn in an open letter. “Even though I don’t fortify James Gunn’s beside the point jokes from years in the past, he is a great guy,” Pratt stated.

Gunn has since signed on to write down and direct the following installment of Warner Bros.’ ”Suicide Squad” for the Surprise rival DC Comics. That movie is to shoot within the fall and be launched in August 2021.

A Disney spokesman declined to touch upon when “Guardians three” would possibly pass into manufacturing. The primary two motion pictures have made greater than $1.five billion in international price tag gross sales.

Cut-off date first reported Gunn’s rehiring.

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